Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness (Proverbs 19:1 ; Proverbs 5:18 ) than (he that is) perverse (in his) ways (literally, in two ways: dual) though he (be) rich - than one perversely halting between 'two ways,' and acting as if he could walk in the right and the wrong way at once (1 Kings 18:21; Matthew 6:24). 'Woe be to the sinner that goeth two ways' (Sir 2:12).